Improving accuracy of major depression age‐of‐onset reports in the US National Comorbidity Survey
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This paper describes a series of questions designed to improve the accuracy of age‐of‐onset reports in the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) and empirically evaluates the impact of these questions on reports about age of onset of major depressive episodes. The logic underlying the series of question is traced to cognitive psychological research on autobiographical memory. Data are presented showing that the new question series yielded more substantively plausible age‐of‐onset reports than those obtained a decade earlier in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study. The test–retest consistency of age‐of‐onset reports was also higher in the NCS than the ECA. Despite these improvements, considerable inconsistency in age‐of‐onset reports remains in the NCS test‐retest data. The paper closes with a discussion of potentially promising future directions to improve retrospective age‐of‐onset reports in new psychiatric epidemiological surveys. Copyright © 1999 Whurr Publishers, Ltd.
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Retrospective reports were used to date age-of-onset of each lifetime disorder using probing methods that have been shown experimentally to improve accuracy of recall.
“Retrospective reports were used to date age-of-onset of each lifetime disorder using probing methods that have been shown experimentally to improve accuracy of recall (Knäuper et al. 1999).”
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The Current Approach describes revised NCS questions that prompted a more thorough memory search, and the Methods and Procedures evaluates their use for major depression. The Discussion says indirect indicators suggest improvement, but the absence of a gold standard prevents a direct measure of accuracy; it does not establish experimental improvement in recall accuracy for each lifetime disorder. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Authors
- Knäuper, B., Cannell, C. F., Schwarz, N., Bruce, M. L., & Kessler, R. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kessler, Ronald C.
- Venue
- International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-02
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 39-48
- ISSN
- 1049-8931 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-0657
- OpenAlex
- W2095510225
- Cited by
- 169
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 7.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- age of onset, major depressive disorder, retrospective reports, autobiographical memory, questionnaire design, test-retest reliability, National Comorbidity Survey, Epidemiologic Catchment Area study, psychiatric epidemiology, measurement accuracy
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